Happy 85th, Louise Meriwether! (Biographer & novelist, "Do..

http://www.blackpast.org/?q=aah/louise-jenkins-meriwether-1923
(brief bio and photo)

http://theharlemwritersguild.org/photogallery/new-52.jpg
(photo from the Harlem Writers' Guild: - "Our distinguished Leading
members Louise Meriwether(seated) Sarah Wright, Rosa Guy, Walter Dean
Myers and Grace F. Edwards.")

http://images.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&client=firefox-a&channel=s&...=org.mo
(photos & covers)

http://www.answers.com/topic/louise-meriwether
Excerpt:
"Three juvenile readers on historical black figures were published in
the 1970s: The Freedom Ship of Robert Smalls (1971), The Heart Man:
Dr. Daniel Hale Williams (1972), and Don't Take the Bus on Monday: The
Rosa Parks Story (1973). Whether for adult or juvenile reading, each
work includes some aspect of African American life not usually found
in American history texts."

Daddy Was a Number Runner

"Francie, aged 12, watches as her father loses his job and, out of
desperation, begins running numbers. When he leaves the family, her
mother must go on government assistance. Francie's brother winds up in
jail, while Francie herself struggles to maintain her self-possession
in an increasingly chaotic and hostile world."


Fragments of the Ark

"In the tradition of Alex Haley's Roots, Fragments of the Ark tells
the heroic story of Peter Mango, a South Carolina slave whose daring
Civil War escape from Confederate Charleston to the Union Navy brings
him face-to-face with his freedom--and still closer to his own soul."


Shadow Dancing

"Glenda is a journalist at the top of her profession. When she falls
in love with a charismatic theatre director who is also a nightmare-
haunted Vietnam vet, Glenda must draw on all her strengths if the
relationship is to survive."


The Freedom Ship of Robert Smalls
"A brief biography of the slave who escaped to freedom with his family
and other runaway slaves on a captured Confederate gunboat."


Don't Ride the Bus on Monday: The Rosa Parks Story
"A brief biography of the Alabama black woman whose refusal to give up
her seat on the bus marked the beginning of the civil rights
movement."


The Heart Man: Dr. Daniel Hale Williams
"A brief biography of the black surgeon who performed the first
successful heart operation in 1893."


Francie's Harlem


She also wrote the introduction to Harriet Jacobs' " Incidents in the
Life of a Slave Girl : The Givens Collection."


Lenona.

I forgot to mention, she lives in NYC, but her office is in New
Jersey.

Her last book - "Shadow Dancing" - was in 2000.

"Francie's Harlem" (1988) is in Dutch, I think. Not sure if that's
simply the Dutch version of "Daddy Was a Number Runner" or not.

Lenona.